and silly ideas of personal safety

I don't want to reopen this discussion, but I have to point out that I was thinking more in terms of the 100,000-200,000 other innocent people who are liable to die in the event of such a catastrophe as an indicator of the Pandora's Box of horror and loss of innocent life which may be opened the world over if this transpires...my own life and safety in the context of such losses is, of course, from my perspective, insignificant.

War is not a good thing...War is never a good thing, no matter how exhalted the ideals or reasons, or how pressing the necessity to remove tyrants or murderous dictators.

But don't take it from me...let's hear from somebody who knows something about war first-hand:

It was an unforgettable display of valor amid the worst of war. During the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, Northern troops from the Army of the Potomac under General Ambrose E. Burnside repeatedly assaulted impregnable Southern positions on Marye’s Heights. Battle-seasoned troops from General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia were defending a heavily-fortified line behind a stone wall. Wave after wave of Federal troops charged up the hill - and were slaughtered. Casualties were horrific. Watching so many brave men in blue hurl themselves into what was almost certain death, General Lee was moved to comment:

“It is well that war is so horrible, lest we should grow too fond of it.”

(some citations quote terrible instead of horrible...take your pick)